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In my case, Chromium 35.0.1916.153 .

@joepie91_: Just FYI, documents do not load until you accept the site's cookies. I don't know of a technical reason why this should be, off the top of my head, so if there isn't one, you may consider removing that restriction/requirement.

Pistos2on Show HN: Grasswire – an Internet newsroom curated and fact-checked by everyone

Just pointing out: This doesn't work at all until you enable cookies for the domain.

Pistos2on Show HN: Chapp is topic-based chat

If cookies are disabled/rejected, the splash page goes into an infinite redirection loop.

Pistos2on Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21

Sarah Mei, currently a member of the core dev team, posted this:

> I've lost a friend, and it's been techcrunched.

https://diasp0ra.ca/posts/3415

Pistos2on Command line tools for web developers

I switched from screen to tmux a while back. The key thing for me is that configuration and manipulations/operations in general are more user-friendly. Otherwise, in terms of the basic use cases, they are essentially the same.

Pistos2on Estimate your English vocabulary size

I scored only 20400, but it makes me ask myself: Perhaps I was being too honest? There were certainly words I'd seen before, and could make educated guesses as to the general meanings of, but I chose not to check those off.

I'm Canadian born and raised, with English as my first language. Honestly, I'm surprised to be told I'm that far below the median and average.

Pistos2on Thoughtback - Program Your Mind

Unfortunately, I must confess this strikes me as being of questionable utility (for me). I guess I'll see how it goes after I enter a few more thoughts, and get some back.

Interface issue (in Opera): There's no key to just submit the thought. None of these work: Enter; Shift-Enter; Alt-Enter; Ctrl-Enter. As a workaround, though, I see that you can use Tab, Enter. [edit] I just set up the thoughtback submission box as a custom search engine in Opera. So now I can enter thoughts from the address bar (and press Enter at the end).

I realize that it would just make things like Twitter, but I was interested to see other people's thoughts, and found no interface for that. Perhaps you could experiment with letting people tag some thoughts #public or such, or have a checkbox under the submission field.

Pistos2on Instantly Add Chat To Hacker News

In Opera, my "this page is still loading" bar keeps popping up every 200 ms or so. Extremely distracting, and (in my case) it obscures the lower bar of envo.lv.

Pistos2on Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good

I would agree that it's not a very complex or innovative idea. I'm assuming Facebook is intentional in not doing the same sort of thing, aiming for simplicity (everyone in one circle).

Pistos2on Google+ Demo

FWIW, Diaspora has had "aspects" from very early on in its development.

Pistos2on Google+ Demo

The "Keep Me Posted" button brings me to

https://www.google.com/intl/en-GB/+/learnmore/notifyme.html

which is a 404. I had to manually delete "-GB" to get a 200.

Pistos2on Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good

I'd have to see these Circles in action, but if they're what I think they are (e.g. you'd make a "Work" circle, a "Family" circle, a "Casual Acquaintance" circle, etc.), then Diaspora has that concept: They call them "aspects". I must admit, "circle" seems like a better term than "aspect", though.

Pistos2on CSS Lint

An obvious next feature is to allow submission of a URL, and it parses out the linked stylesheets and runs itself on those. i.e. lint my site

Pistos2on Aha Moments When Learning Git

I prefer smaller commits to larger ones because it isolates things (both improvements and breakage). I use git bisect when needed. You can always squash small commits into larger ones if really necessary, but teasing apart large commits into small, logical steps or components is much harder. Smaller commits are more "mobile" in that they can be cherry picked (in or out).

Pistos2on Aha Moments When Learning Git

I use git add -p to split apart what I intend to eventually fully get into the repo. Usually, this means separating whitespace cleanup from meaningful commits. Sometimes I use it to make my commits "distinctly describable" -- instead of a big commit saying (in effect) "I did lots and lots of stuff generally to do with BigTask", I am able to describe various steps of that work, e.g. "Refactored models.", "Added supporting .js file for foo mechanism.", "Migration for bar process.", "Controller method and view for baz form."

Generally, I reserve the "make sure it works" step for just before _pushing_ (i.e. making public), rather than just before committing.

I always use either `git commit -av` or `git add -p`, so I can preview what I'm about to do. I never use the freewheeling `git commit -m`.

Pistos2on Firefox add-on with 7m downloads secretly tracks your browsing history

Wow, and here I thought I was the only one that did that! I do the same, though with Opera's built-in cookie control features.

Pistos2on Working with git? These aliases will save you hours

I quite agree. Here are my git aliases:

        stat = status
        stta = status
        satt = status
        tat = status
        co = checkout
        fo = fetch origin
        ff = merge --ff-only
        ffo = merge --ff-only @{u}
        po = push origin HEAD

Pistos2on The Rise of "Logical Punctuation".

I like YYYY-MM-DD for two reasons:

1) Sorting the string representations sorts in time order.

2) It eliminates ambiguity almost completely, because extremely few places use YYYY-DD-MM. The ambiguity of most ##/##/## dates is irritating.

Pistos2on Ask HN: Daddy, what's "tax"?

"It's like trying to eat, but before you can bite, someone takes some of the food off your spoon."

Pistos2on Pivotal Tracker will no longer be free in 6 months

You can hover over the left-side icons of a story (such as the comment/speech bubble) to get a read-only popup containing most of the details of the story.

Pistos2on Pivotal Tracker will no longer be free in 6 months

I'm hoping getting some money out of PT would make them act faster on the things most in demand in their user feedback site. http://community.pivotaltracker.com/pivotal [It appears as though] they've not been doing anything at all on these fronts for many, many months:

* markdown (code blocks, anyone?)

* editing or deletion of comments

* grouping stories

* replying to comments by email

[Edit: list formatting]

Pistos2on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring Remote Workers? (First Edition, November 2010)

I'm looking for intermediate web developers. Part-time, contract basis, probably 3 to 9 months duration, but possibly longer.

Prospective candidates must:

* have code samples demonstrating adequate skill and knowledge in: Ruby, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery, SQL

* be very familiar with using: the shell (Linux/UNIX), SSH, git, MVC

* be able and willing to put in a minimum of 2 hours of billable work per week

* be able to touch base with me at least twice a week

Ideal candidates would:

* have experience with many of: Ramaze, AJAX, PostgreSQL, MySQL, an ORM, Google APIs, Pivotal Tracker

* be able and willing to put in 5+ hours a week

* be able to touch base with me at least once every 48 hours via IRC

The project involves a mix of technologies because we're transitioning from legacy code (PHP).

If you are interested, email me at [hnhiring.pistos aet purepistos.net] Code samples will be accepted in either tarball or URL form.

Thanks.

Pistos2on Poll: What programming language do you use for your app/startup?

SQL.

Pistos2on Coding Horror: The Keyboard Cult

I've worked with someone who looked at the keyboard when he typed, and overall wasn't a very fast typist (I'd estimate < 50 WPM). He made frequent use of tab completion and mouse-based copy-pasting. [Although he didn't use them] there's also double-click and double-click-and-drag copying, and the "features" of IDEs.

He produced code of quality on par with the rest of the team, and I never thought of him as having a final-product throughput less than the rest of us [who could type faster].

It's true that you can't hunt and peck and be even just a mediocre pianist, but performing music necessitates keeping tempo -- you must actuate your instrument at the right time, and poor mechanical skill on your part has direct and significant impact on the quality of the music. There is no such analogous requirement in coding, other than perhaps deadlines -- but that is obviously on an entirely different scale (no pun intended).

Pistos2on Opera 11 Alpha is out, brings plugin support

I've been using Opera since version 4, on Windows. I now use 10.63 under Linux. Years ago, Firefox enticed a little, and nowadays Chrome, but I haven't see anything convincing enough to make me switch away from Opera. It's a solid, polished product.

Pistos2on Opera 11 Alpha is out, brings plugin support

According to them, these new extensions will also have [more?] control over tabs and windows, which plain JS (like their existing Widgets) cannot do.

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/getting-started-with-oper...

Pistos2on Opera 11 Alpha is out, brings plugin support

Personally, I've never found the built in ad blocking lacking. Where it missed anything (which is rare), blocking a specific ad is two clicks or so away. In what ways would you like things improved?

Pistos2on US scientists find potentially habitable planet near Earth

http://www.google.com/search?q=57395520000000%20miles%20per%...

    ((57 395 520 000 000 (miles per year)) * (21 years)) / (35 000 miles per hour) = 3 928 593.15 years

Pistos2on How to Raise Boys Who Read

I'd like to add that I strongly recommend that kids read only with sufficient lighting. I'm no opthalmologist, but I do believe the primary (sole?) reason my eyeglass prescription is as strong as it is is because, as a youth, I read with poor lighting at night.